News'The desire for trophies' - Alexis Mac Allister on why Liverpool's subs continue to impact

For the fourth match in a row, a substitute introduced by Arne Slot went on to find the back of the net.

Following on from Darwin Nunez's heroics at Brentford last weekend, Harvey Elliott scored the winner to give the Reds a 2-1 victory over Lille in the Champions League and seal their spot in the last 16.

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Explaining the continued impact from the bench, Mac Allister told Liverpoolfc.com: "I think it's the desire and the fire to fight for trophies this year.

"Of course it's never easy to be on the bench but the coach tries to make clear that everyone is really important for the team and everyone has to contribute, even from the bench.

"I really like it because as a team if you want to compete for trophies, you need players who come off the bench and do the things that we are doing.

"So, really happy for that and everyone can see that we have a really good team."

Elliott's decisive strike in the 67th minute at Anfield came after 10-man Lille had made it 1-1 through Jonathan David.

Mohamed Salah netted his 50th European goal for Liverpool to open the scoring against a side that arrived on Merseyside unbeaten in their last 21 games in all competitions.

"Really happy, really happy, because it was an important game for us to secure the pass to the next round," Mac Allister said. "We played against a really good team that came here and tried to do the things that they know. It was a difficult game but the most important thing is that we got the result.

"They are a really good team. If you watch the way they play football, it's really nice, it reminds me of Roberto De Zerbi, one of the coaches that I had and share really good memories [with], because of the way they play football.

"They build up from the back, they try to play the third man, triangles, so congratulations to them because it's not easy to come to Anfield and do that. Even when they played with 10 men, I think we struggled a little bit to press but that's credit to them.

"We run a lot, we worked really, really hard and that's why we got the result."

Liverpool will enter the final round of fixtures in the league phase of the Champions League occupying top spot.

Although already certain of their place in the Round of 16, Mac Allister and his teammates will be looking to make it eight victories from eight when they head to PSV Eindhoven next week.

He finished: "Every game is important for us, every game is a possibility to show that we want to be in the team, we want to win trophies.

"For sure we are going to think about Ipswich now but after we have a really, really difficult game against PSV. We will give our best to win that game as well."

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